[78-L] Changing speeds [was: Newly-pressed Bix Beiderbecke 78]

[David Lennick]

It says that in the Decca Book as well, I believe. May not specify the speed 
but I'm pretty sure it says "from tape supplied by Stuart Hamblen". And of 
course the "kids" never appeared on Ed Sullivan or anywhere else.

dl

On 9/18/2010 4:03 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>    We also discussed the controversy around Stewart Hamblin's Cowboy
> Church Sunday School choir recordings which seem to be speeded up
> slightly to make an older teen age group sound like 9 year olds.
> Hamblin never admitted to it.  I found out from a reissue producer that
> the original master tape is a 7-inch reel at 7 1/2 IPS that Hamblin
> submitted to Decca.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>> And in another reply David Lennick also wrote:
>>>> Bob and Ray once did an entire sketch that was played back at high speed. Not
>>>> doubling the tape speed, which is easy but difficult to listen to..this was
>>>> more like recording it at 33 and playing it back at 45, and then presenting it
>>>> as "the kids" doing today's soap opera. This was around 1956.
>>>>
>>> Isn't this how the kid's voices in "South Park" are done, sped up a
>>> little but not too much?  Certainly its done digitally and not from 33
>>> /13 to 45.  But the concept is the same.
>>>
>>> -- Ken